Overview

This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill.

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Author:   Claire L. Jones
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781526136282

ISBN 10:   1526136287
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: contraceptive commercialisation before the Pill 1 The dynamics of production: contraceptive manufacturing 2 Shaping markets: packaging, brands and trademarks 3 The print culture of contraceptives: advertising and the circulation of birth control knowledge 4 ‘As honest as business permits’: medical practitioners, birth control clinics and contraceptive efficacy 5 Over the counter and on the high street: contraceptive retailing in the urban landscape Epilogue -- .

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'[...] a much-needed addition'. Metascience -- .

'[...] a much-needed addition'. Metascience 'The work of Jones and Drucker reveals key insights into how commerce and technology were both powerful enough forces to overcome the medical and legal restrictions that shaped reproductive health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also maintained and even exacerbated racial and gendered reproductive inequality... absorbing and critiquing these lessons from the past will be a crucial task in the making of this century’s reproductive policies of access and inclusion.' Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2023 -- .

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Claire L. Jones is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Kent.

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